[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 58211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28949]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC); Public Meeting of the 
FGDC Facilities Working Group

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to invite public participation in meetings of 
the FGDC Facilities Working Group and its subgroups. The major topic 
for these meetings is development of a Facility ID standard, a utility 
data content standard, and an environmental hazard data content 
standard.

TIME AND PLACE: 9 December 1996, at Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, in Room 8124C of the Pulaski Building, 20 Massachusetts 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The Pulaski building is located just a few 
blocks west of Union Station. The Facilities Working Group will meet 
from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.; the Facility ID and Environmental 
Hazard Data Content Standard teams will meet from 10:00 a.m. until 
12:00 noon; and Utility Data Content Standard team will meet from 3:15 
until 4:15 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Fox, FGDC Secretariat, U.S. 
Geological Survey, 590 National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, 
Reston, Virginia 20192; telephone (703) 648-5514; facsimile (703) 648-
5755; Internet ``[email protected]''.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FGDC is a committee of Federal agencies 
engaged in geospatial activities. The FGDC Facilities Working Group 
specifically focuses on geospatial data issues related to facilities 
and facility management. A facility is an entity with location, 
deliberately established as a site for designated activities. A 
facility database might describe a factory, a military base, a college, 
a hospital, a power plant, a fishery, a national park, an office 
building, a space command center, or a prison. The database for a 
complex facility may describe multiple functions or missions, multiple 
buildings, or even a county, town, or city. The objectives of the 
Working Group are to: promote standards of accuracy and currentness in 
facilities data which are financed in whole or in part by Federal 
funds; exchange information on technological improvements for 
collecting facilities data; encourage the Federal and non-Federal 
community to identify and adopt standards specifications for facilities 
data; and promote the sharing of facilities data among Federal and non-
Federal organizations.

    Dated: November 1, 1996.
Wendy A. Budd,
Associate Chief, National Mapping Division.
[FR Doc. 96-28949 Filed 11-12-96; 8:45 am]
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